At least 9 out of every 10 software engineers I know does all their development on a mac. Because this sample is from my experience, it’s skewed to startups and tech companies. For sure, lots of devs outside those areas, but tech companies are a big chunk of the world’s developers.

So yea I would say Apple is a “serious development platform” just given how much it dominates software development in the tech sector in the US.

It is a weird situation. Apple products are consumer products but they make us use them as development hardware because there is no other way to make software for those products.

Anything being developed for the Apple ecosystem requires use of the Apple development platform. Maybe the scope could be called "unserious," but the scale cannot be ignored.

For me at least, not being Linux is a feature. Linux has always been “almost Unix” to the point where now it has become its own thing for better or worse. OS X was never trying to be Linux. It would be better if we still had a few more commercial POSIX implementations.

They are likely scared of people who would run MacOS virtual desktop farms, without also buying an appropriate number of Apple machines.

That’s what I would be worried about if my primary source of income was hardware sales.

The VM limit only applies to the number of macOS VMs launched from macOS itself.

My 2018 mac mini officially supports VMware ESXi to be installed directly on the hardware and virtualize any number of macOS machines

Funny enough I can even launch more than 2 macOS vms on my framework chromebook with qemu + KVM from the integrated Linux terminal.

Yeah but the "hardware" in that sense is almost entirely iPhone and iPhone-adjacent, Mac is a trailing 4th- or 5th-place line of business... maybe 6th.

Doesn't make too much sense, the VMs don't get unique hardware identifiers that one could (ab)use for spamming iMessage.

I’ve been looking for this for forever. Finally, the right label.

>seeing programmers who are absolutely smart enough to run their own Linux system on computers they actually own actively choose not to do so is very disconcerting.

I run macOS because Apple understands that QA testing is something of actual importance, and designing yet another package manager is not.

I do spin up Linux every now and again to see if it's good yet, and always walk away.

Why do documents print at ~50dpi on my network printer?

Why does the system simply not wake up ~20% of the time when I open my laptop's lid?

Why do I have to unplug and reconnect my USB WiFi Dongle every hour or so when the internet randomly drops out?

Why does the system stop recognising my USB SD Card reader occasionally, forcing me to hard reboot the system?

Why is the audio distorted over HDMI when I enable HDR?

Why does Kodi only detect a refresh rate of 30Hz when the system itself has no issues seeing that the monitor is 60Hz?

All of these are real problems that real users have had, but instead of solving them the Linux development community instead chooses to devote their time and resources navel gazing about systemd alternatives or creating a fragile AUR package for software that already has a sensible and officially supported distribution method.

In the very same comments sometimes, those frustrating geniuses